DCHP-3

Laurentian barrier

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a vast area of mineral-rich, mostly granitic, Pre-Cambrian rock surrounding Hudson Bay and extending as far southward as the Great Lakes.

Quotations

1887
The Laurentian belt or lowest rock-step in the ladder of time, is mainly a barren unproductive region here as elsewhere, and scarcely any land fit for settlement is to be found on it.
1929
There is no element in the present Dominion of greater significance than the so-called Canadian Shield or Laurentian Barrier.